So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11
The only way to hear God’s voice is to understand how He speaks, and the only way to understand how He speaks is to read His spoken word, promises, and declarations. The greatest challenge as we embark on our soul’s missions, follow our dreams, and manifest our greatest desires is to not be swept away or pulled from our knowing and our truth by the words of others.
How many times have you felt a knowing that something was meant for you, or that something needed to be explored, or that God answered a prayer, yet the people around you made you doubt, question, and not trust your knowing? If what you felt—be it a blessing or a promise—came from God, the only thing that will ever pull you away from maintaining that certainty when it’s not fully visible in your reality is by listening to others over Him. The moment we make someone else, or something that they said, the absolute truth, is the moment we give our power away.
Yet, God’s word and promises are the most reliable power there is. Rooted in love, His word always brings us peace, puts us at ease, and places us in a deep state of surrender, to the point where it never fails to accomplish its intended purpose—to guide us, to help us, to protect us. On the contrary, while God’s words cannot fail, human words can—people may project their own limitations, doubts, or fears upon us, yet anything that comes from God doesn’t.
The beauty in this is that His word will not return empty—even when we can’t see immediate results, we must trust in God’s promises for our lives. We must give less weight to what doesn’t feel true in our hearts and place more emphasis on the ways God speaks to us and the knowing He’s placed in our hearts. Although it might not make logical sense—why we know things or feel a certain way—and others may lead us to question whether we are right, we must choose to maintain certainty, for anything that comes from God is always pure, loving, and for our highest good.
